are you afraid of heights?

i'm not so keen on heights, but i did manage these stairs yesterday no problem (just don't look down). i guess if you're a motivated ship geek (which should have been one of my secrets, since it's rather out of character), you'll do whatever you have to.

headache now gone, thank you all for your headache-go-away vibes, i think they helped.

and now i'm off to fika so that i have pictures to contribute here. any excuse for a starbucks, i tell you...

this is why we love the fika

latte and a fragilité

heaven.

and this is why we love the fika

fika!

i learned something today. and typical of me, i'm going to fully, wholeheartedly embrace it and make it my own (mostly because i pretty much already do, but didn't know it had a name). it's the swedish concept of fika which means taking a break with a good coffee (tea and cocoa ok too, tho' apparently the word has its roots (as back-slang) in the swedish word for coffee) and a little something sweet on the side. there's a whole pool of pictures of fika on flickr. and wiki even has an entry about it (that makes it real, right?).

oddly, i asked husband about it (his native language is swedish) and he thought it had something to do with smoking. hmm. apparently those scanians (skånsker) don't know real swedish.  as near as i can tell, it's like danish hygge with caffeine instead of alcohol. in any case, i'm gonna be all about fika from now on.